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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Circuit Court ,began Monday,
Judge Burns presiding, The Jury
was empaneled on Tuesday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11
CHATrARoI CAMP MEETiNe.-Fol
family tickets apply to
j. M. LAucK, Manager.

We would like Tor those who owe
their subscriptions to settle before
<next week, which closes our second
year.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Curtis Jones, a boy Of this place,
was unfortunate enough to get the
index finger Of his left hand cut
in Snyder Bros planning ma
chine last week.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

The romans Of Judge Jordan
l~~xere buried Friday near the Falls
lfBlaine.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Miss Dora vmson has returned
from visit TO Catlettsburg.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Judge J. n. Stewart, Of Paints
lille, was in town this week.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Fred Moore and Frank Savage, of
Cincinnati, arc in this place.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Hon. x. Z Prichord and Col, l..
Moore are attending Circuit
eourt at This place.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Mr. Green. Meek, Of PaintsyiIle,
5assod down on the train Tuesday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Geo. Thornbrry end Geo. Clay
wore in town this week.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Dir. Bpnfeld was in town yoster-
day Y
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Hiss Nora Borders and il. A..
Hammond called at our Office last
thursday.
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Brown 1eghorns.

The best Of layers and excellent
for table use. Selling out very low.
j. NJ. LAtcK.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

The majority Of the schools of the
} county began las. Monday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

I. Il. Brown and r. G. Burns, OF
batlettsburg, are here.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Mr. j. Nj, HUI Of the Ashland
Republican, was IN ON office Mon
lay.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Judge ". Q. ireland, Of Ashland,
Is attending court here.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

A construction train has beenp
.bn the Chattaroi.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Frank Clark, Of Ashland, was in
our place yesterday,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

The recent cool nights are excel.
lent FOR sound sleeping
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

sam Kelley, Of Cincinnati, was
in our city yesterday
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Gamp-meeting begins tomorrow.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Miss Minnie Wroten is visiting
Al Peach Orchard.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Mr., G, w. Littlejohn, q merchant
Of our place, has made an assign
ment. ]. w. NJ. Stewart is the as
signee.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

G. D. Norris is in catlottsburg on
business.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Hon. John 5. Patton, of Eden,
<~is in Louisa.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

There is considerable sickness in
Town.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

!. Lee Ferguson, of Pikoyille, is
N Louisa.
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h. J. Prichard was in Catletts-
burg yesterday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

A night force % now at work on
lbc lock and dam.
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~~Mr Isaac ifays, Of Wilbur, is in
>own, serving on the Circuit Court
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B. II. Conley, ofFlat Gap, Is here
attending court.
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]. +. Hatten, of Rockville, was
I<1n town Tuesday.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Send your orders for job work
10 the Ngws Office.
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Col. S. A. Forbes was in town
llsis week.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

l>Flux is again fatally raging in
JOHNSON county,
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BIG SANDY NEWS.
THURSDAY, Auousr 18th, 1887.

Circuit Court is in session.
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Wanted.

To exchange valuable property
in Catlettsburg forproperty in Lou
isa. Apply to M. S. Burns,
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IA Hughes official majority is
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-11

Arthur Preston was in town Tues
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
Anxiety, Not Work, That Kills.
Sir John Lubbock ia Pail Mali Gazette

The difficulty, however, is not perhaps
SO much to procure the requisites of hap
piness as to resist the assaults of care and
sorrow. "The great man." says Emerson,
sis he who in the midst of the crowd keeps
with perfect sweetness the serenity of
solitude" How many of the troubles of
life are insignificant in themselves and
easily avoidahie? It is not SO much, in
most cases, great sorr ows, diseases or
death, but rather ''the little daily dyings"
which cloud over the sunshine of life. We
most of US give ourselves an immense
amout of useless trouble, incumber our
selves, as it were, on the journey of life
with dead weight of unnecessary bag
gage. In that most delightful fairy tale,
'Alice in Wonderland" the White Knight
is describe as having provided himself
ON starting for journey with a variety
of odds and ends, including a mOusetrap,
in case he was troubled by mice at night
and a beehive, in case he came across a
swarm of bees. To save ourselves from
imaginary. or at any rate predetermined
evils, we often incur real suffering. "The
man." said Epicurus, ''who is not content
with little is content with nothing" There
is an amusing passage in Hearne's
Journey to the Mouth of the Copper
mine River" A few day after starting
he met party of Indians, who annexed
a great deal of his property, and all
Hearne says is, 'sThe weight of our bag
gage being 80 much lightened, our next
days journey was much pleasanter." I
ought, however, to add that the Indians
broke up the philosophical instruments,
which, no doubt, were rather an incum-
brance. Do, then, your best and await
calmly the result. It is anxiety, not work,
which kills; it is work, not anxiety, which
commands success. There is a Hindoo
saying that the fortune of man who sits
also; it sleeps when he sleeps, moves when
he moves and rises when he rises Anxiety,
on the contrary, does more harm than
good. Many seem TO think that, in these
days of competition and struggle for ex-
istence, life is more difficult and anxious
than it used TO be. On the contrary,
believe there never was time when
modest merit and patient industry we're
more sure to merit reward"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27

sylvania, New York and Massachusetts,.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of August
he caught sight of the spires of Bos-
ton. he had crossed the continent in
1885, day and had travelled 300 N lies.
MIR. Stevens rested in New York during
the winter. and in the spring of 1885 sail
ed, with his bicycle, for Liverpool to take
up the thread of travel that he was going
to tie about the world. He sailed on the
City of Chicago with two slips of
bioyclers' paper-one to paste on the
Chinese wall and one on the cliffs of the
kybeer Pass.
On May 2, 1885, he started from Edge
Hill Church. Liverpool to whsel across the
vast continent of Europe and Asia. He
wheeled 800 miles to London, meeting at
bicycle tournament on the way Major
Knox Holmes who had recently taken trip
of ia miles in ten hours. Crossing to
Dieppe on Channel steamer be wheeled
through Normandy, down the valley of
the Seine, past noble chateaus and runs,
till, on May Is, he saw the Arch Of
Triumph and entered Paris; then by
vireyardy down the valleys of Maine and
Moselle to Nancy, and through German
Lorraine to Strasburg, through the Black
Forest to Munich, where he tipped a
student of the university under the i'm
preston that he was a waiter. Through
Austria. where he met man who spoke
English, but had never before met any
one else who spoke that tongue; through
Hungary where rows Of women were
working in the fields under overseers like
blacks in the south in the days of slavery;
through Servia and Bulgaria, and THROUGH
Turkey, where the Turks we're delighted
with his bicycle, and pasta had Turk
played yankee Doodle" on harp for
him.
He arrived in Constantinople on July
Cd 1885, two months after leaving Liver
pool.
Pushing on through Asiatic Turkey
and Persia, the plucky American ar
rived at Teheran in November, 1886,
when the winter came and he had to stop
till spring in the Turkish capital. He
then started to go through suthern Siber-
la and northern China.
The Russians refused him passports.
He then tried to go through Afghanistan.
The Russians objected. He started to go
anyhow. The Russians stopped him he
wheeled back to Constantinople, took a
trip to Calcutta, and then rode through
India and southern China last fall. Mobs
of snperstitious cinnamon mobed him as
the devil ON wheels, and he reached
Shanghai surrounded by Chinese mill
tary escort. Then he took spin across
Japan and had finished his jour ney.
He sailed J1om Toki o to San Fran
cisco. He has travelled about 16, 900 miles
on his bicycle, which is an ordinary road
machine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
E0naliZinp Family Labor.
Arkausaw Traveller.

| have about come 80 the conclusion
that no man is good enough for even
passably good woman" said the proprie-
tor of the Coon range all-sorts store, as
he glanced at lank felIewawho had made
a disastrous raid on box of matches.
Every man has an easier time than his
wife"
Give thought of that thousand times"
replied Cd man Gatnwood known through
the neig hborhood as Lazy Sam; 81 know
that have an easier time than my wife,
but I'm bringing the thing down mighty
nigh equal now. / don't believe in az
loving a woman to mighty nigh kill her
self at work, let me tell you, and for some
time have been shaping my points so
that she won't have such hard time"
"Equalizing it, eh?''
'That's exactly what I'm doin' gentle
men. Last year my POI wife had to chop
all the wood and fetch all the water"
"And you have relieved her of shat
eh?.'
'Wall, partly; she only has to chop the
wood now. My boy has grown to be big
enough to tote the water. / tell you
what's fact, man ought to think of
these things"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
NEWS ALL SORTS.

In st. Louis there is one saloon 10
every IT'S inhabitants, and one church to
every $500.
A wonderful gold mine has been dis
covered in Sonora, Mexico. The miners
get pure metal by breaking the quartz
with hammers.
The country produced 100000 tons of
pig iron and 100000 tons of steel rails
in 1886. We seem to be doing heavy
business.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
Jan. 10, amounted to $264,195; CORES
pondlng week in 1886, $195, 499. TIE
shipments of fractional silver coin from
Jan. 3 to Jan. 15, amounted to $115,378.
During last week there was decrease
in the visible supply of 522,O14 bushels of
wheat, 70,7G0 bushels of oats and 1925
bushels of barley; but an increase of $780,
331 bushels Of corn and 1868 bushels of
rye.
Judge Ayres, Of Indianapolis, decided
that a lieutenant governor can only be
elected every four years, when the gov
ernor is chosen. He therefore enjoined
Col. Robertson from presiding at the
joint convention next Wednesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
PERSONALS.

Secretary Lamar and his bride arrived
at Washington Saturday morning.
It is understood that Thursday next
has been selected as the date for the
marriage of August Spies and Miss Van
Zandt In the jail at Chicago.
Major General John M. Schofeld was
elected president of the Military Service
Institute at it's biennial session in New
York last Wednesday night.
President Dwight, of Yale, has been
elected director of the National bank of
New Haven to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Henry G. Kingsley.
Miss Kate Field has one of the last
mementoes of the late Senator Logan
a note of regret at his inability to attend
her lecture before the G. A. r. in Wash
ington.
Mrs j. Ellen Noster. lawyer and tenn
perance agitator of Des Moines, Iowa,
has been accused of accepting bribe of
81, 500 from the republican state central
committee.
The remains of James Lick the bene-
factor of the Lick observatory on Mount
Hamilton California, will be placed in
niche in left of tas fodn i4tIo1 pier
of that institution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
A Public Renefaetor.
New York Times.

The gentleman who invented skating
made mistake in dying without fret
handing In hisname to the person who,
at that particular period of the worlds
history. kept the roll of fame. II is, of
course, possible that he did SO, and that
the roll fame man had personal
grudge against him, and, to get oven,
forgot to put his name down. It wasn't
the square thing to do, and if he did he
may thank his lucky stars that posterity
hasn't an inkling of what his name
was.
The gentleman who invented skating
must nave lived g long time ago, Judging
from the proficiency of the present gen
GRAFTON, and the fact that the glacial
tornation was on top a long while be-
iore the presents generation found It's
legs.
The nationality of the inventor is in
dispute.
Of course, the modest red man pats in
ms claim, but any student of history is
wen aware that long long before Colum-
ous discovered America the Dutch were
IN the habit OF gliding over the frozen
surface of the Zuder Zee at q far swift
! tens.
OF sliding out of Eden, but there is a diff
ference between sliding skating, and 90
tar as the records show there is no req
son to suppose that Adam ever wore
SKATES or had any use for them.
However, 1t is we'll known thas the
fashionable skate of early DAYS consisted
OF very thin and very smooth piece OF
wood fastened to the foot with leather
thongs, when, as at not very late day.
anything of pliable nature was pressed
| into service.
With the passage of time desire for
something more ornamental preyed upon
the mind of man, and he substituted bone
for wood.
Still he chung to the thongs. 1t Is up
on the bone and thongs that the gentle
Indian bases his claim, bat in his fire.
quent chases after the scalps of the white
invader could sit down and wait for him
and still keep out of his clutch because he
was shod with iron and could turn sharp
corner by digging his heels into the
CLASSY surface OF u frozen lake or river
while the foaming and discounted Indian
slid on III a straight line until his momen-
tum had pegged itself out.
From iron to steel was an easy iump
and followed as matter of consequence,
and the skate of to-day is thing of beaH-
ty and utility.
It requires no straps, and no boy who
can raise dollar is compelled to carry a
gimlet for the purpose OF destroying his
boot heels, or pocketful of string, to be
used for the triple purpose of fastening
his skates, freezing his fingers and east
ing huge shadows over naturally sunny
disposition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
know He had allays told Nance to have

know? He had allays told Nance to have
naught to do with that devil Kemp
'sThere was an inquiry, but naught
came of it. Old Dedman had another fit
and died, and Dick went over the seas,
they said. Farmer Kemp, young Jim as
was, never come back to settle. He sold
cut, and nobody would have knowed
word about it only he come once, when
he was getting In years: TO look at
Nancy's grave to Haslemere.
'He told all as he knowed to the sexton
Mr.. Keeling, and years after Dick came
as a stranger and asked for the grave of
Nancy Dedman, as he had fancy to see.
Though he was an old gray man, much
beshaken, and with naught about he to
speak of murder, Mr.. Keeling as was
always one with two pair of eyes, deter
mined on seeing Justice done, and he
tracks the man to the inn and brings the
parson, who was magistrate into the bar
gain. But the parson found broken
down old man, and he would not make
any bestir; it were too long ago he said
And afore Dick Dedman died he and the
parson were the best of friends, and from
Dick parson had it all. After Dick died
he telled Mr.. Keeling, who fitted in his
part, and so it was told and told again,
and the tale was we'll known when I was a
boy, though nobody speakes of it now"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
PURSUIT OF FAME.
HARPER 8 MAGAZINE.

Bright fairy of the morn, with flowers arTayed,
Whose beauties to iby young pursuer seem
Beye nd the ecs tasy OF D ~et's dream
81 al o'erta ke thee, ere thy luster fades
Ripe glory of the noon to dazzled eyes
A pageant of delight. and p wtr, and gold,
DissolyIDg into mirage manifold
Do o'ertake thee, or mistake my prize?
Dull shadow of the evening gsunt and gray.
At randt III mr. wD, beyond me, or above
And colo as men DRY ~ the arms OF love,
Rave certain they. but to cast away?
No morn or noon. or ria /, she said.
But right, The ceptb OF night behind the
sun
BY all msnkind pursued, but never won,
ntil my sbaoow ia Is upon shade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
THE SOCIAL CIRCLE.
he big hustle is voted bad form.
machine.

Inc Dig DuStle Is VOIeu pau FORM.
Tall candles burn on some dinner
tables.
"Piscatorial patties' is the swell name
for Goldfish balls made Of halibut.
Alfred Querry's portrait of Mrs. Cleve-
lsnd shows her standing at full length.
Anybody with money can be the
leader of the so-ca,led American colony
in Paris.
At last the men have returned to wear
ing white kid gloves with every dress.
Silk astrickan is a very popular trim
ming material for both bonnets and
wraps.
The latest appropriations of bonnets
show much smaller shapes than hereto
fore.
Smoked red, or whatever that may be,
is named among the new fashionable
colors.
No house is complete without at least
half dozen ornamental and decorative
calendars.
Tiny toboggans now ''dangle from the
the period.
It is to be noted that the opera hat for
men has been very generally replaced by
the high silk hat.
Hanging brass lanter for the ball are
larger than ever, and some hats crooks on
the side.
Old Holland mantel clock of china. al
though antique, are new for household
decoration.
Metal belts, worn by certain class of
women in Paris, have already been in
troduced here.
Plated silver terrapin dishes represent
the turtle amid what are intended to be
taken for rocks.
A black silk watch chain with dress suit
is held by the Brummels to be eminently
the correct thing.
Head dresses are worn more and more
by ma ried women to dinners and evening
entertainments.
No jacket, fur trimmed or otherwise, is
English except it has some sort OF a hood
fastened behind.
Some people in New York are shocked
because the National Opera Company
travels on Sunday.
Tobogsan note paper and envelopes
have appeared in time to be mixed up
with the craze of the hour.
People who said the fur-lined circular
was going out of fashion are now con-
vinced they were mistaken.
In London the men of fashion, with
one accord have adopted fur-lined and
fur trimmed overcoats.
A New York society lady has been Of
fered $1,000 to sign her name to a patent
medicine Endorsement.
Opera glasses, vinaigrette end fan com
bined come to US from Paris, but are
rather too much of a good thing.
Satin beaded scarfs are not regarded
as too elegant to have across the table
when there is dinner company.
Mrs. Langtry wears on the street cos
tune of dark green cloth. trimmed with
brown fur, with turbin to match.
A game called gossip" and played
with old carte de visjte photographs of
persons, has become very popular.
French ladies are wearing dresses of
plad wool this winter. The latest fancy
is to have all the plaids of the skirt cut
bias.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
PERSONAL CHIT-CHAT.

Archdeacon Farrar says that ''the Eng
lish in India have made 100 drunkards for
one Christian"
Mrs. Cleveland's $4,000 bust is made
of mutilated bank notes chopped into
pulp, and is said to be good likeness.
Scion Chase, the influential greenback-
or, has been made homeless and well nigh
moneyless by the burning of his house at
Lewiston, Ne.
Herr Windthorst, who has just beaten
Prince Bismarck, has been the leader of
the German Center for many years.
Prince Bismarck and Herr Windthorst
are the best of good friends socially. On
the occasion of the princes reception
Herr Windthorst is usually placed at the
right hand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
AROUND THE WORLD ON A BICYCLE.
Thomas Stevens Travels Far, and Sees Many
Strange Scenes and People.
n Y. Star.


Strange Scenes and People.
n. Y. Star.
The world has been girdled by a bicy-
Gle. An American has brought a new
Arabian Nights tale to the city of Haroun
AL Raschid, and fresh wonder story to
the nursery books. A young man from
the little village of Turney, Mo-, Mr..
Thomas Stevens, started from San Fran
cisco at s O'Clock on the morning of April
%, 1884, to go around the world on his
bicycle. He has just arrived in San
Francisco, after spinning about the whirl-
ing globe for two years and eight
months He went as special delegate to
all nations of the prosperous magazine.
Outing.
Mr.. Stevens wheeled across the Sierras
through snow sheds, tunnels, cannons,
along precipices and around mountains
where he heard the roaring of the snow
slides and found the peaks covered with
thirty feet of snow. Then over the des-
ert of Nevada, with its mirages, where no
birds were visible and little shining liz
ards were the only living things; now
calling on the Piutes, now aiming shot
at mountain lion, then riding through
the Rockleg; next crossing Utah, swim
ming in the Salt Lake, chatting with 6
pretty Mormon maiden, riding past the
castellated rocks of Green River, and
crossing the red desert. Then going
through Nebraska and Iowa, past a COM
munistic community of $4,000 happy
people, with $4,000 acres of rich land,
with towns and factories. So on through
Illinois, indiana, Ohio, Northern Penn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-01-27
Wants Another Mamma.
Texas Siftinss 8.

Texas NITIlnsS.
Col. Yerger was dRncing his little son
on his knee, when the boy, looking up in
to his fathers face, said:
"Papa, do you know what 1 want next
Christmas?"
'No, my son, don't know what you
want next Christmas"
"Well, I'll tell you, pa, but yoa mustn't
let it go any further. want another
mother?"
"Why, Tommy, why do you want an
other mother?''
"Why, you see this one never leaves the
key in the pantry door, and if lad
new one perhaps she would have more
confidence in me.'